Purple Ruler × Pathfinder Multi Academy Trust
Trust-Wide Partnership Proposal

One inclusion & exam-prep provision, shared across Pathfinder's secondaries.

A bespoke, curriculum-aligned online provision for Pathfinder Multi Academy Trust — built around the two cohorts your team has described at Archbishop Holgate's, and ready to extend to Malton School under one trust agreement.

Prepared forPathfinder Multi Academy Trust
Schools in scope2 secondaries · Holgate's + Malton
Prepared byRoss Clements · Purple Ruler
DateJune 2026

Delivering live since 2016 · 100,000+ students across 33 countries · member of Stanford University's National Student Support Accelerator.

8 / 8
Ofsted minimum standards for online education — all met (Oct 2025)
£29.17
per group, per hour ex VAT — as little as £4.86 / pupil at six
≤ 6
students per group, one flat rate — never priced per student
50–60%
more cost-effective trust-wide, on the White Horse Federation model
Why we're talking

Two cohorts, one provision partner.

Across recent conversations with your team at Archbishop Holgate's — Hannah Reeder (Alternative Provision Lead) and Hannah Woolerton (Assistant Headteacher: SEND & Inclusion) — two distinct needs have emerged. Purple Ruler can serve both from a single, consistent provision, and put the same model in front of Malton School.

BLUEPRINT · CATEGORY B

Internal AP top-up

Students in your in-school alternative provision who need targeted English & Maths support around the existing timetable — taught live on your schemes of work, on a KS3 SEMH reintegration pathway.

DISTINCTION · CATEGORY D

KS4 stretch & exam prep

Small-group, grade-focused English & Maths for Key Stage 4 — the same trusted teacher every week, pacing reverse-planned from the exam date and mapped to your exam boards.

ACADEMY · CATEGORY A

Students out of school

For learners not currently accessing school at all, our full managed timetable (English, Maths, Science, with PSHE / Careers / PE) gives a stable structure while reintegration is planned. Detailed separately on request.

This proposal focuses on the two group provisions you asked us to price — Blueprint (B) and Distinction (D) — with the Academy (A) model noted as the natural route for the fully out-of-school cohort.

The full provision ladder

Four categories, one coherent ladder.

A trust agreement gives you the whole ladder to move students along — from full-time placement back toward the classroom. Each category has a single, clear focus (its "North Star"). For Pathfinder, Blueprint and Distinction are the two in scope.

Category A
Academy
North Star · Attendance

Full managed online AP for learners out of school — excluded, anxious or medical. Groups of six, nationwide.

from £139 / wk part-time
In scope
Category B
Blueprint
North Star · Behaviour & engagement

Live group teaching inside your school's own system, on your scheme of work — reintegration, EBSA, gap-filling. ≤6/group, seats shareable across the trust.

£29.17 / hr per group
Category C
Compass
North Star · Regulation & access

1:1 / very-small-group, SEND-informed — the default for EHCP and risk-of-exclusion learners, pitched to age-related expectations with specialist scaffolding.

£29.17 / hr
In scope
Category D
Distinction
North Star · Curriculum & grades

Group stretch & exam prep for capable learners under-performing against target — reverse-planned from the exam, driven by QLA / mock data.

£29.17 / hr per group

Optional Enhanced Mental Health support available as an add-on (£180 / month per learner). Schools are not charged VAT.

How we teach

Live, bespoke, and quality-assured by real people.

Both Blueprint and Distinction run on the same hallmarks — the things that make the lesson land for the hardest-to-reach learners.

Live instructionReal teachers, live every session — not recorded content or an AI tutor.
Bespoke & standards-matchedBuilt on your schemes of work, exam boards and pacing — not a generic course.
Qualified, vetted teachersExperienced subject teachers, KCSIE-safeguarding checked.
Matched by track recordWe assign the teacher our data shows succeeds with this profile, subject and gap.
One teacher, the right groupThe same teacher for the whole cycle; grouped by gap, not by class, and reassessed as gaps close.
QA'd live, not self-reportedLessons are observed and scored against our rubric by real people — see below.

The loop: we check mastery every lesson, reassess roughly every seven, regroup by live data, and feed each learner's progress back to your class teacher within the week — so our work talks to your classroom rather than running alongside it.

The trust footprint

Two secondaries, one agreement.

Pathfinder educates more than 6,000 children across York and Ryedale. Of its schools, two are secondary — and both are the natural home for a shared KS3–KS4 inclusion and exam-prep provision under a single trust framework.

Archbishop Holgate's School
Phase11–18 Secondary
On roll1,818
LocationYork
Pupil Premium22.8%

Where the conversation began — AP relaunch for KS3 SEMH reintegration plus an out-of-school cohort. Two senior leads already engaged.

Malton School
Phase11–18 Secondary
On roll1,041
LocationMalton, Ryedale
Pupil Premium21.2%

Pathfinder's second secondary, reunited with Holgate's under the same trust. The identical provision can be extended here under the same agreement, teachers and reporting standard.

On-roll figures and Pupil Premium proportions from current published data.

Quality assurance

Every lesson scored against the right rubric.

We don't self-report quality. Each lesson is observed live and scored on the rubric for its category — every metric rated 1 Inadequate, 2 Developing or 3 Established. These are the exact measures we hold our teachers to for the two provisions in scope.

Blueprint — Category B

North Star: behaviour & engagement · 10 metrics, 30 points max

1 · Differentiation & ARE
2 · Behaviour management (your own systems)
3 · Learner profiles & alignment
4 · Understanding checks (CCQs / ICQs)
5 · Engagement & interaction
6 · Lesson structure (6-step)
7 · Teacher energy & rapport
8 · Professionalism
9 · Low / no participation handling
10 · Student feedback report

Bands: 10–15 immediate support · 16–22 developing · 23–27 established · 28–30 exemplary.

Distinction — Category D

North Star: curriculum & grades · 6 metrics, 18 points max

1 · Adaptability — pacing reverse-planned from the exam date
2 · Understanding — diagnose misconception, AfL, retrieval
3 · Presentation — exam-board accurate, explicit modelling, mark scheme
4 · Professionalism
5 · Engagement — practise > listen; cold-call, mini-whiteboards, timed tasks
6 · Content & curriculum — reverse-plan from target grade; QLA / mock data

Scored 6–18; each lesson observed and fed into the half-termly report alongside ARE / target-grade benchmarking.

Pricing & the rate lock

Lock this year's rate before it rises.

Our group rate increases for the 2026/27 academic year. A trust commits once, and we hold every Blueprint and Distinction group at the current £29.17 / hour ex VAT for the full term of the agreement — across both secondaries.

£29.17per group / hour, ex VAT
(as little as £4.86 / pupil at six)

Why sign annually now

Confirming an annual trust agreement ahead of the new academic year protects you from the 2026/27 uplift on every group you run — Blueprint and Distinction, Holgate's and Malton. The rate is per slot, not per student: the same hourly price covers up to six pupils, so a full group works out at roughly £4.86 per pupil per hour, and the earlier the agreement is in place, the longer the saving runs.

Worked example — one group, English & Maths, 18 weeks

ItemCalculationCost (ex VAT)
Per group, per hour—£29.17
Per week — 3×30min English + 3×30min Maths (3 hrs)£29.17 × 3£87.51
Per month (4 teaching weeks)£87.51 × 4£350.04
Full 18-week course£87.51 × 18£1,575.18
Single subject only (English or Maths)half of the above£787.59

Cost per pupil falls as the group fills

Pupils in the slotPer pupil · 18-wk course
3 pupils£525.06
4 pupils£393.80
5 pupils£315.04
6 pupils (full slot)£262.53

Starting with 3–4 pupils leaves seats open; additional pupils join the existing group at no extra weekly cost.

Scaling across the trust

Run one Blueprint group at Holgate's and one at Malton (English & Maths, 18 weeks each) and the pair comes to £3,150.36 ex VAT — with the rate held against the 2026/27 increase for the whole agreement.

Add a Distinction KS4 group at the same £29.17/hr, and every group sits under one trust agreement, one onboarding and one reporting standard — not separate per-school arrangements. Seats are shareable across the two schools, so a quiet slot at one can flex to need at the other.

Indicative; final trust-wide schedule modelled to your group count and weekly hours when we agree the framework.

The standard · benchmark

The trust-wide model, proven.

The White Horse Federation built a single trust-wide alternative provision with Purple Ruler — pooling seats across its schools into one inclusion hub. It is the model this proposal puts in front of Pathfinder.

50–60%
more cost-effective than separate per-school delivery
60+
pupils supported through one shared hub
14+
differentiated groups, flexed to need
1
trust-wide inclusion provision, not many

"The purpose of this work is to reach the students nobody else could." — Tim James, SEND & Inclusion Lead, White Horse Federation

▶ Watch the White Horse story

Pathfinder starts with the same building blocks — two secondaries, shared curriculum standards, one inclusion vision. A single agreement turns two school conversations into one trust provision.

Quality & assurance

Inspected, approved, trusted.

Purple Ruler meets all the minimum standards for online education across every section of its Ofsted monitoring (October 2025), and is an approved online AP in York.

"A significant strength of Purple Ruler is the support staff provide for pupils with SEND… each pupil receives carefully tailored, individualised teaching."— Ofsted, October 2025

"Communication with those who commission places is a strength. Consequently, commissioners feel well-informed." A full commissioning & compliance / due-diligence pack and the most recent Ofsted report are available on request.

Already known in York

A familiar face locally.

Purple Ruler presented at the York Schools Fair Access Meeting, and is in live conversation with leaders at Archbishop Holgate's about a September provision. This isn't a cold pitch — it's a local partner your trust already knows.

York
approved online AP
SEND
named an Ofsted strength

Reference trusts available on request, including the White Horse Federation, David Ross, Swale and Dixons.

No-commitment trial

A free Academy trial week, w/c 22 June.

Before any agreement, we'll run a one-week Academy trial for up to two of your current students, free of charge — live lessons Monday to Friday across English, Maths and Science (or English and Maths only), with dashboard access so your team can review engagement in real time, and a mid-trial check-in on the Wednesday. It's the simplest way to let leadership see the teaching and platform ahead of the September Blueprint rollout.

The path forward

From here to a September start.

One joint call with both leads

A short session with Hannah Reeder and Hannah Woolerton together, so we scope both cohorts — the in-school AP top-up and the out-of-school learners — in one conversation.

Run the free trial week (w/c 22 June)

Identify up to two students, and we build and confirm the trial timetable with you before lessons begin.

Agree the trust framework & lock the rate

Confirm the Blueprint and Distinction groups, which subjects you staff internally, and sign an annual agreement that holds £29.17/hr across both secondaries ahead of the 2026/27 increase.

Build & launch for September

We build the curriculum brief with your leads, schedule a teacher, and agree the timetable with you — setting the launch and schedule together so the September Blueprint pathway fits your calendar.

Let's build it

Ready to shape one provision across Pathfinder's secondaries?

Let's spend 30 minutes together — both leads on the call — scoping the cohorts, the trial, and a trust agreement that locks this year's rate.

Book a working session

Ross Clements · Purple Ruler · ross.c@purpleruler.com
+44 1227 913300 (UK) · +1 302 597 9251 (US)

Prepared for Pathfinder Multi Academy Trust · Purple Ruler (Enlai International Ltd) · June 2026.
Pricing held at £29.17/hr ex VAT with an annual trust agreement, ahead of the 2026/27 uplift. Indicative trust-wide schedule subject to final modelling. Schools are not charged VAT.